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Sports
The Battalion
Page 5 • Monday, January 13, 2003
Aggies falter against OSU in Big 12 opener
By Dallas Shipp
THE BATTALION
It was a tale of two halves for the Texas
A&M men’s basketball team Saturday night
which fell to Oklahoma State 93-76 in front of
7,822 fans, the largest crowd of the year at
Reed Arena and the seventh largest crowd in
Reed Arena history.
The Aggies came into the game against
Oklahoma State looking for their first ever
win in a Big 12 Conference opener and hop
ing to improve their season mark to 9-3, an
accomplishment that hasn’t been reached
by an Aggie basketball squad since the
1986-87 season.
Things looked promising for the first 16
minutes of play as the Aggies shot nearly 70
percent from the field. That statistic would
come crashing down with 3:38 remaining in
the first half.
After taking a 39-30 lead over the Cowboys,
the Aggies missed their final three shots of the
first half as OSU went on a 10-2 run to cut the
Aggies' lead down to 41-40 at halftime. A&M
did not bounce back after the half.
“(The 10-2 run) was a momentum switch,”
said A&M freshman forward Antoine Wright.
“But I still think we went into halftime feeling
confident. We just didn’t come out and exe
cute in the second half.”
A&M head coach Melvin Watkins blamed
the lack of defensive effort for the Aggies’
demise as the first half came to an end.
“We stopped playing good defense at the
end of the first half, and that carried over into
the second half,” Watkins said. “That can't
happen, but it did.”
Oklahoma State’s run in the final minutes
of the first half was due in large part to the
Cowboys’ junior guard Tony Allen, who
scored six of the Cowboys’ 10 points in the
final 3:16 of the first half.
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Allen posted a game high of 29 points against
the Aggies. This was a new career high for the
junior transfer who played for Wabash Valley
Community College in Illinois last season.
Allen was 10-of-17 (59 percent) from the
field, including 4-5 from behind the three-
point line.
OSU head coach Eddie Sutton said that
the coaches expected Allen to contribute to
the team’s offensive success but never imag
ined that Allen would adjust so quickly to
Division I basketball.
“He is a better player than we ever expect
ed him to be,” Sutton said. “He can shoot, he
can penetrate, he can get offensive rebounds
and he has a good mid-range shot. He’s a
really good basketball player.”
Following the Cowboys’ win over the
Aggies, Sutton complimented the recent suc
cess of the Aggies’ basketball program and
said that they were much improved over last
year’s squad.
“We beat a good ball club,” Sutton said.
“This is the best team A&M has had since the
Big 12 started.”
Despite their home loss against the
Cowboys, the Aggies aren't throwing in the
towel, something that Watkins said some
teams in the past have been prone to do.
“It was different in the locker room after
the game than it has ever been,’’ Watkins said.
“I felt like they understood what I was saying
after the game.
“This team isn’t going to quit. There is a lot
of basketball to be played and we’re going to
be in the mix. We will bounce back and get
that next one on the road (Wednesday at
Nebraska).”
The Aggies’ next home game is Saturday,
Jan. 25, at 3 p.m.
ALISSA HOLLIMON • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M guard Marcus Watkins dunks the ball on a fast break
against the Cowboys. The Aggies lost the game Saturday night.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Women's basketball
topples OSU, 69-54
The Texas A&M women's bas
ketball team gained its first
conference win on Saturday,
defeating Oklahoma State 69-54
at Gallagher-lba Arena.
Junior guard Toccara Williams,
on her 21st birthday, led the
Aggies in scoring with 18 points.
Williams, who leads the nation in
steals, also contributed six take
aways in the game.
The Aggies took a 36-20 lead
into the intermission and main
tained control in the second half
with strong defense and aggres
sive rebounding. The Cowgirls
were down 22 points late in the
contest before gaining ground in
the game's dosing minutes.
Trisha Skibbe stood out for
OSU in the losing effort, putting
up season-bests with 31 points
and 14 rebounds.
The Aggies' victory put an end
to the team's struggles on the
road, where it had dropped three
straight entering Saturday's game.
On Wednesday, the Aggies
return to Reed Arena, hosting
the University of Texas.
The game is scheduled to tipoff
at 7 p.m.
Quarterback recruit withdraws pledge
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
Former Texas A&M head football coach
R.C. Slocum left new head coach Dennis
Franchione one parting gift: a 2003 recruit
ing class highly regarded as one of the top
five in the nation.
Of Slocum’s 15 verbal commitments,
only Baytown Lee quarterback Drew Tate
has decided to go elsewhere. Tate called
new Aggie offensive coordinator Les
Koenning Jr. to tell him of the decision.
Verbal commitments are non-binding.
“The offense they’re going to be running
is going to fit Reggie (McNeal) more than
me,” Tate told the Baytown Sun. “When
they had Kevin (Sumlin) in there, they were
going to throw it more, and I would have a
chance to get in there, show what l can do
and compete.”
In his 2002 campaign for the Ganders,
Tate threw 306 completions for 3.621 yards
on 471 attempts. He also passed for 35
touchdowns. \
During his four-year career, Tate has bro
ken the Texas high school record in comple
tions (970), attempts (1,576), passing yards
(12,183) and passing touchdowns (113).
“Hands down (McNeal) is a ten times
better runner than I am,” Tate told Houston
television station KRIV. “It hurts me to
watch a game from the sidelines, and I know
I would probably do that at A&M for
awhile. To me, 1 just want to go someplace I
know I am going to play and do what I do
best - sit in the shotgun and throw the ball.”
In reality, Tate would be behind McNeal,
Dustin Long, and Jason Carter at the begin
ning of summer workouts.
The 6’0”, 160 pound quarterback is said
to be considering the University of Houston,
See Tate on page 6
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